shall, in the first instance, be made to the chief civil servant at Surat, who shall refer it to the Nabob, who hereby engages to order an immediate investigation to be made, or in case the parties should desire it, to order the disputes to be referred to a proper arbitration, the Nabob engaging to bring it to a direct issue, and to carry the sentence or award, if unfavourable to his relation or servant, into immediate execution.

By order of the Right Honourable the Governor-General in council,

N. B. The above is the copy of the treaty as transmitted from the GovernorGeneral in council of Bengal to the Governor in council of Bombay, on the 10th of March, 1800, and was ultimately agreed to, without any alteration, by the Nabob of Surat, on the 13th May, 1800.

APPENDIX C.

Treaty of perpetual and general defensive alliance, between the Honourable the English East India Company and his Highness the Nabob Nizam ul Mulk Asoph Jah Behauder, Soubahdar of the Decan, his children, heirs, and successors; settled by Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Resident at the Court of his Highness, by virtue of the powers delegated to him by the most noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, &c. &c. &c.*

Whereas, by the blessing of God, an intimate friendship and union have firmly subsisted for a length of time, between the Honourable Company and his Highness the Nabob Nizam ul Mulk Asoph Jah Behauder, and have been cemented and strengthened by several treaties of alliance, to the mutual and manifest advantage of both powers, who with uninterrupted harmony and concord, having equally shared the fatigues and dangers of war and the blessings of peace, are, in fact, become one and the same in interest, policy, friendship, and honour. These powers, adverting to the complexion of the times, have determined, on principles of precaution and foresight, and with a view to the effectual preservation of constant peace and tranquillity, to enter into a defensive alliance, for the complete and reciprocal protection of their respective territories, together with those of their several allies and dependants, against the unprovoked aggressions, or unjust incroachments, of all or of any enemies whatever.

ART. 1. The peace, union, and friendship, so long subsisting between the two states, shall be perpetual; the friends and enemies of either shall be the friends and enemies of both; and the contracting parties agree, that all the former treaties and agreements between the two states, now in force, and not contrary to the tenor of this agreement, shall be confirmed by it.

ART. 2. If any power or state whatever shall commit any act of unprovoked hostility or aggression against either of the contracting parties, or against their respective dependants or allies, and, after due representation,shall refuse to enter into amicable explanation, or shall deny the just satisfaction or indemnity which the contracting parties shall have required, then the contracting parties will proceed to concert and prosecute such further measures as the case shall appear to demand. ART. 3. For the more distinct explanation of the intent and effect of this agreement, the Governor-General in council, on behalf of the honourable Company, hereby declares, that the British Government will never permit any power or state, whatever, to commit with impunity, any act of unprovoked hostility or aggression against the rights or territories of his Highness the Nizam, but will, at all times, maintain the same, in the same manner as the rights and territories of the honourable Company are now maintained.

ART. 3. With a view to fulfil this treaty of general defence and protection, his highness the Nabob Asoph Jah agrees, that two battalions of Sepoys and one

regiment of cavalry, with a due proportion of guns and artillerymen, shall be added, in perpetuity, to the present permanent subsidiary force of six battalions of Sepoys, of one thousand firelocks each, and one regiment of cavalry, five hundred strong (with their proportion of guns and artillerymen), so that the whole subsidiary force furnished by the Honourable East India Company to his Highness shall henceforward consist of eight battalions of Sepoys (or eight thousand firelocks) and two regiments of cavalry (or one thousand horse) with their requisite complement of guns, European artillerymen, Lascars, and pioneers, fully equipped with warlike stores, and ammunition; which force is to be stationed in perpetuity, in his Highness's territories.

ART. 4. The pay of the above-mentioned additional force shall be calculated at the rate of the pay of the existing subsidiary force, and shall commence from the day of the entrance of the said additional force into his Highness's territories. ART. 5. For the regular payment of the whole expense of the said augmented subsidiary force (consisting of eight thousand infantry, one thousand cavalry, and their usual proportion of artillery) his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah hereby assigns and cedes to the honourable East India Company, in perpetuity, all the territories acquired by his Highness, under the treaty of Seringapatam, on the 18th March, 1792, and also all the territories acquired by his Highness, under the treaty of Mysore, on the 22nd June, 1799, according to the schedule annexed to this treaty.

ART. 6. Certain of the territories, ceded by the foregoing article to the honourable Company, being inconvenient, from their situation to the northward of the river Toombuddrah, his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah, for the purpose of rendering the boundary line of the honourable Company's possessions a good and well defined one, agrees to retain the districts in question, namely, Copul, Gujjinderghur, and others (as marked in the annexed schedule) in his own possession; and, in lieu thereof, assigns and cedes, in full and in perpetuity, to the honourable Company, the district of Adoni, together with whatever other territory his Highness may be possessed of, or is dependant on his Highness's Government, to the south of the Toombuddrah, or to the south of the Kistnah, below the junction of those two rivers.

ART. 7. The territories to be assigned and ceded to the honourable Company by the fifth article, or in consequence of the change stipulated in the sixth article, shall be subject to the exclusive management and authority of the said Company and of their officers.

ART. 8. Whereas the actual produce of a considerable portion of the districts ceded to the honourable Company by article sixth, is ascertained and acknowledged to be greatly inferior to their nominal value, as specified in the schedule annexed to this treaty, and the said districts cannot be expected, for a long course of years, to reach their said nominal value; and whereas differences might hereafter arise between the contracting parties, with respect to the real value of the same, and the friendship and harmony, happily subsisting between the contracting parties, be disturbed, by discussions relating to the adjustment of accounts of the produce and value of the said districts; in order to preclude all causes of any such future difference or discussion between the two states, the said East India Company agrees to accept the said districts (with the reservation stated in the sixth article) as a full and complete satisfaction for all demands, on account of the pay and charges of the said subsidiary force, and therefore to whatever extent, or for whatever length of time, the actual produce of the said districts shall prove inadequate to the amount of the subsidy payable by his Highness, on account of the said subsidiary force, no demands shall ever be made by the honourable Company upon the treasury of his Highness, on account of any such deficiency, or on account of any failure in the revenues of the said districts, arising from unfavourable seasons, from the calamity of war, or any other cause. His Highness the Nizam, on his part, with the same friendly views, hereby renounces all claim to any arrears of balances which may be due to him from the said districts, at the period of their cession to the honourable Company, and also to any eventual excess in the produce of the said districts beyond the amount of the subsidy payable by his Highness, on account of the said subsidiary force, the true intention and meaning of this article being, that the cession of the said districts, and the exchanges stipulated in the sixth article, shall be considered as a final close and termination of accounts

between the contracting parties, with respect to the charges of the said subsidiary force.

ART. 9. After the conclusion of this treaty, and as soon as the British resident shall signify to his Highness Asoph Jah, that the honourable Company's officers are prepared to take charge of the districts ceded by the fifth article, his Highness will immediately issue the necessary Perwannahs, or orders, to his officers, to deliver over charge of the same to the officers of the Company; and it is hereby stipulated and agreed, that all collections made by his Highness's officers, subsequent to the date of the said Perwannahs, or orders, and before the officers of the Company shall have taken charge of the said districts, shall be carried to the account of the honourable Company.

ART. 10. All forts situated within the districts to be ceded as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the officers of the honourable Company with the said districts; and his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah engages, that the said forts shall be delivered to the honourable Company, as nearly as possible in the same state as that in which his Highness received them.

ART. 11. His Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah will continue to pay the subsidy of the former subsidiary force, and also that of the additional troops, from his treasury, in the same manner as hitherto observed, until the honourable East India Company's officers shall have obtained complete possession from his Highness's officers of the country ceded to the said Company by the fifth article. The Company will not claim any payments of subsidy from his Highness's treasury, after their officers shall have obtained possession of the said districts from the officers of his Highness.

ART. 12. The contracting parties will employ all practicable means of conciliation to prevent the calamity of war; and, for that purpose, will, at all times, be ready to enter into amicable explanations with other states, and to cultivate and improve the general relations of peace and amity with all the powers of India, according to the true spirit and tenor of this defensive treaty. But if a war should unfortunately break out between the contracting parties and any other power whatever, then his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah engages, that, with the reserve. of two battalions of Sepoys, which are to remain near his Highness's person, the residue of the British subsidiary force (consisting of six battalions of Sepoys, and two regiments of cavalry, with artillery) joined by six thousand infantry and nine thousand horse of his Highness's own troops, and making together an army of twelve thousand infantry, and ten thousand cavalry, with their requisite train of artillery, and warlike stores of every kind, shall be immediately put in motion, for the purpose of opposing the enemy; and his Highness further engages to employ every further effort in his power, for the purpose of bringing into the field, as speedily as possible, the whole force which he may be able to supply from his dominions, with a view to the effectual prosecution and speedy termination of the said war, the honourable Company, in the same manner, engaging on their part, in this case, to employ in active operations against the enemy, the largest force which they may be able to furnish, over and above the said subsidiary force.

ART. 13. Whenever war shall appear probable, his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah engages to collect as many Benjarries as possible, and to store as much grain as may be practicable in his frontier garrisons.

ART. 14. Grain, and all other articles of consumption and provisions, and all sorts of materials for wearing apparel, together with the necessary quantity of cattle, horses, and camels, required for the use of the subsidiary force, shall, in proportion to its present augmentation, be as heretofore, entirely exempted from duties.

ART. 15. As by the present treaty the union and friendship of the two states are so firmly cemented, as that they may be considered as one and the same, his Highness the Nizam engages neither to commence nor to pursue, in future, any negotiations with any other power whatever, without giving previous notice, and entering into mutual consultation with the honourable East India Company's Government; and the honourable Company's Government, on their part, hereby declare, that they have no manner of concern with any of his Highness's children, relations, subjects, or servants, with respect to whom his Highness is absolute.

ART. 16. As, by the present treaty of general defensive alliance, mutual defence, and defence against all enemies, are established, his Highness the Nabob Asoph

Jah consequently engages, never to commit any act of hostility or aggression against any power whatever; and in the event of differences arising, whatever adjustment of them the Company's Government, weighing matters in the scale of truth and justice, may determine, shall meet with full approbation and acquiescence.

ART. 17. By the present treaty of general defensive alliance, the ties of union, by the blessing of God, are drawn so close, that the friends of one party will be henceforward considered as the friends of the other, and the enemies of the one party as the enemies of the other; it is therefore hereby agreed, that if, in future, the Shorapoor or Gudwall Zemindars, or any other subjects or dependants of his Highness's Government, should withhold the payment of the Sircar's just claims upon them, or excite rebellion or disturbance, the subsidiary force, or such proportion thereof as may be requisite, after the reality of the fact shall be duly ascertained, shall be ready, in concert with his Highness's own troops, to reduce all such offenders to obedience. And the particular interests of the two states being now, in every respect, identified, it is further mutually agreed, that if disturbances shall, at any time, break out in the districts, ceded to the honorable Company by this treaty, his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah shall permit such a portion of the subsidiary force as may be requisite, to be employed in quelling the same, within the said districts. If disturbances shall, at any time, break out in any part of his Highness's dominions, contiguous to the Company's frontier, to which it might be inconvenient to detach any proportion of the subsidiary troops, the British Government, in like manner, if required by his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah, shall direct such proportion of the troops of the Company, as may be most conveniently stationed for the purpose, to assist in quelling the said disturbances within his Highness's dominions.

ART. 18. Whereas, by the favour of Providence, a perfect union, harmony, and concord, have long and firmly subsisted between the Honourable East India Company, his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah, his Highness the Peshwah Rao Pundit Purdhaun, and Rajah Rhagojee Bhoosillah, therefore should his Highness, Rao Pundit Purdhaun, and Rajah Rhagojee Bhoosillah, or either of them, express a desire to participate in the benefits of the present defensive alliance, which is calculated to strengthen and perpetuate the foundations of general tranquillity the contracting parties will readily admit both, or either of the said powers, to be members of the present alliance, on such terms and conditions as shall appear just and expedient to the contracting parties.

ART. 19. The contracting parties being actuated by a sincere desire to promote and maintain general tranquillity, will admit Dowlut Rao Scindiah to be a party to the present treaty, whenever he shall satisfy the contracting parties of his disposition to cultivate the relations of peace and amity with both states, and shall give such securities for the maintenance of tranquillity, as shall appear to the contracting parties to be sufficient.

ART. 20. This treaty, consisting of twenty articles, being this day settled by Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick with the Nabob Asoph Jah Behauder, Captain Kirkpatrick has delivered one copy thereof, in English and Persian, signed and sealed by himself, to the said Nabob, who, on his part, has also delivered one copy of the same, duly executed by himself; and Captain Kirkpatrick, by virtue of especial authority given to him on that behalf by the most noble the GovernorGeneral in council, hereby declares the said treaty to be in full force from the date hereof, and engages to procure and deliver to his Highness, in the space of thirty days, a copy of the same from the Governor-General in council, in every respect the counterpart of that executed by himself; and on the delivery of such copy, the treaty executed by Captain Kirkpatrick shall be returned, but the additional subsidiary force, specified in the third article, shall be immediately required by his Highness the Nizam, and furnished by the honourable Company, and all the other articles shall be in full force from this time.

Signed, sealed, and exchanged, at Hydrabad, on the 12th October, Anno Domini
1800, or 22nd Jemmadee ul Awul, Anno Higeræ 1215.
J. A. KIRKPATRICK,
Resident.

(Signed)

(A true copy.) THOMAS SYDENHAM,

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Secretary to the Residency.

Schedule of his Highness the Nizam's territorial acquisitions by the treaty of Seringapatam, dated the 18th May, 1792, and by the treaty of Mysore, dated the 22nd June 1799, and which in conformity to the fifth and sixth Articles of the annexed treaty, are now, together with the Talook of Adoni, and all other Talooks situated to the South of the Rivers Toombuddrah and Kistnah, ceded in full and in perpetuity to the honourable East India Company.

List of Talooks acquired by the treaty of Seringapatam.-Sidhout, 6 talooks, 81,885 C. pagodas; Chinnoor, 6 do. 65,427; Kumlapoor, 4 do. 50,729; Vo-oor, 6 do. 70,684; Budwail, 3 do. 54,883; Jumonul Murrow, 7 do. 90,643; Kummum, 7 do. 1,30,148; Kunnuckgherry, 3 do.30,952; Chit-koontah, 1 do. 11,298; Gudtoor, 1 do. 17,846; Coelkonetah, 1 do. 10,224; Opulpaho, 1 do. 10,098; Nursapoor, 1 do. 8,397; Bisspul, 1 do. 11,074; Dony pahr Wurdwarum, 1 do. 12,402; Poodtoor, 2 do. do. 6,000; 22,979; Chutwail or Muttlwaur, 8 do. 130,769; Monyarel paht,

Nussum, 1 do. 17,802; Bungumpully and Chunchunmuttah, 2 do. 41,804; Ouak, 1 do. 20,000; In Goody, 4 do. 51,782; Bulhary and Kurkoor, 1 do. 23,000; Weonlahwempelly, I do. 12,565; Kopul, 8 do. 106,137; Gajjinderghun, 8 do. 101,977; Kunnuckgherry 1 do. 79,100; Singaputtum oopal warrah, 1 do. 20,000; Hunmunteond, 1 do. 15,000; Busswahpoor, 1 do. 5,000; Mokah, 12,162; In the Talook of Koorkoor, 370 -Total, 13,16,666.

List of Talooks acquired by the Treaty of Mysore.-Gooty (remainder of)-Fyze Nissar (the fort and dependencies) 15,568; Kundundlah, 7,500; Paumry, 11,000; Wurkur kunoor, 8,998; Yarutty Murracherroo, 5,902; Beem Rajah, 4,800; Nuttoor, 2,700; Biâly Mutty Murgh, 9,426; Chintumpully, 8,951; Mutyhurah Huttoor, 22,251; Koodunty, 8,800; Yarghy, 22,673; Pencoondah, 60,000; Minighserrah, 8,000; Hundy Ununtpoor, 16,000; Koorkoor, (remainder of) 11,629; Kunchungoondy, 10,000; Gurrumcondah, 1,85,810; Ruttungherry, 10,000; Raydroog, 6 talooks, 1,02,856; Kinnool Paishcush, 66,666; Junymullah, 1 do. 7,800; Umrahpoor Noomautty, 10,000; Annagoondy, 60,100; Kurpunkully, 6 talooks, 1,10,030; Wurtnahpoor, and sundry other villages in the Chittledroog district, -Grand total, 21,09,968. 5,840. Total, 7,93,300.

Districts situated north of the Toombuddrah, which, conformably to the sixth article of the annexed treaty, remain with his Highness the Nizam, to be deducted from the above, as follows: Koopul, 8 talooks, 106,137; Gajjirdughur, 8 do. 101,977; Kunnauckgherry, 1 do. 79,100; Villages of the Anagoondy district, situated to the north of the Toombuddrah, 8,710; Villages of the Tukkulcotah district, situated likewise north of the Toombuddrah, 855.-Retained by his Highness the Nizam, 2,96,780.-Remains to the honourable Company, 18,13,188.Add the Adoni country, which together with all his Highness's remaining possessions, south of the Toombuddrah, is, by the sixth article of the annexed treaty, ceded in exchange for the above districts to the honourable Company, 8,34,718 rupees.

(A true copy) J. A. KIRKPATRICK,

Resident.

Separate and Secret Articles appertaining to the Treaty of perpetual and general defensive alliance, concluded between the honourable English East India Company, and his Highness the Nawaub Asoph Jah Bahauder, on the 12th October, Anno Domini 1800, or 22nd Jemmadee ul Awul, Anno Higera 1215.

ART. 1. The Peshwa, Rao Pundit Purdhaun, shall be admitted to the benefits of this general defensive alliance on the following conditions:

First. Rao Pundit Purdhaun shall accept the mediation of the honourable Company's Government, for the amicable adjustment on the basis of the treaty of Mah, of all claims or demands of Choute, and of all other claims or demands whatever, on the territories or government of his Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah.